- What is the best ERP software for a small business in Canada?
- The best fit is the system that handles Canadian tax and payroll natively, covers the modules you actually run (finance, sales, inventory, purchasing, payroll, and manufacturing or retail if that is your business), and can be live in weeks rather than quarters. Tellency was built around GST/HST/PST/QST rules, CRA payroll requirements and CAD/USD trade, and is configured to a business in one to four weeks.
- How much does ERP software cost in Canada?
- Budget two numbers: the recurring per-user subscription and the one-time implementation. Tellency's per-user pricing starts at $79 CAD per user per month, with implementation scoped as a fixed project that includes data migration, configuration and training. Traditional mid-market ERP implementations are typically quoted in months of consultant time, which is where most of the cost hides.
- Does Tellency calculate GST, HST, PST and QST automatically?
- Yes. Tax is applied by place-of-supply rules on every sale, input tax credits are tracked on purchases, and the GST/HST return is produced from the ledger. Provincial sales tax in BC, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and QST in Quebec are handled as separate tax authorities with their own remittance reports.
- Can Tellency run Canadian payroll?
- Yes. Payroll covers CPP and EI, federal and provincial income tax, vacation pay and statutory holidays by province, and produces T4, T4A and ROE filings. Because payroll posts to the same general ledger as everything else, there is no re-keying between a payroll tool and the books.
- Is Tellency suitable for businesses in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary or Montreal?
- Yes — Tellency runs multi-location businesses across provinces, applying each province's tax and payroll rules automatically. We maintain dedicated pages for Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Mississauga, Brampton and Surrey describing the local considerations for each market.
- How long does a Tellency implementation take?
- One to four weeks for most businesses. The work is: confirm your chart of accounts and tax setup, configure the modules you use, migrate customers, vendors, items, open receivables and payables and opening balances, train your team, and run a parallel month-end before cut-over.
- Can we migrate from QuickBooks or Sage?
- Yes. Migration is part of implementation: chart of accounts, customers, vendors, inventory items, open AR and AP, and historical balances are brought across and reconciled to your closing trial balance before you go live.
- Can the AI post transactions on its own?
- No, and that is deliberate. AI agents can prepare reconciliations, draft journal entries and chase receivables, but every ledger posting waits for human approval and every amount must trace to a source document such as a bank line, an invoice or a purchase order. The approval and the source are both recorded in the audit trail.
- Is our data kept separate from other customers?
- Yes. Each customer runs in its own isolated database with role-based access control and a full audit log of every change and approval.